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I wonder if some folks in China pondered whether they should be selling artillery materials to the americans and made th call that they'd never get within range of Chinese units.
You'd've thought that a Military-Industrial Complex would at least be good at doing the things that are in its name. Fancy that!
Preventing your enemy from developing their own supply chains by letting them use yours could actually be a workable strategy.
This is what the US and UN do with food aid. To paraphrase Sankara, real food aid isn’t grain and millet, it’s tractors and fertilizer. Just in China’s case they’re sabotaging empire, and in the former it’s in service of it
A good chunk of famines happen because of the us dumping corn on local markets until local food ag collapses, then losing interest when the price of corn changes.